'Details Not Recorded,' my solo album, is out now. It features 11 new songs :
1. Brilliant Ships
2. My Horror Mask
3. Late Caller
4. Details Not Recorded
5. Les Catacombes
6. I Know You Know My Name
7. A Pause In The Night
8. Save Me
9. Desiderata
10. Loves Like You
11. Quiet Life
The record was recorded mostly at home, though adopted some semblance of cohesion under Simon Trought's skillful hand at SOUP studio, an
analogue heaven beneath the Duke Of Uke ukelele shop in Spitalfields,
London.
http://www.soupstudio.co.uk/I'm accompanied on 'Details' by a small band of like-minded souls. David
Sheppard (of Leaf Records recording artists, Phelan/Sheppard) offered
many hours of priceless support, advice and instrumentation; playing
drums, bass and guitar. Keiron Phelan (also of Phelan/Sheppard)
provided flute and Josh Hillman, sometime of Willard Grant Conspiracy,
played viola and violin. Angele David-Guillou of Klima supplied her categoristic glacial backing vocals and Jerome Tcherneyan of Piano Magic supplemented percussion. Myself, I can lay claim to vocal, MIDI guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, programming, keyboards, percussion, melodica, recorder, whistling and bells.
If you'd like to buy the album, I'd recommend these people :
The UK-based mail order company, Norman Records mail order, for the
extremely reasonable price of £7.79 (+ post and packaging) :
Norman Records Note : if you buy 'Details Not Recorded' along with Portal's new 'Options'
EP (featuring Glen on vocals), or any other Make Mine Music release,
Norman will give you a Make Mine Music compilation ('MMM050')
ABSOLUTELY FREE.
The album can also be picked up from the honourable Boomkat gentlefolk :
BoomkatBoomkat also offer the album in mp3 and FLAC formats.
If you're in America, you can also buy it from those reliable surf dudes at Darla :
surf's upI've received several emails informing me that the album is also already
available as a free download on various blogs and websites.
Downloading from these sites and copying the record for your friends
quite simply moves me one step closer to announcing my retirement from
making records. If people don't purchase my record, I don't make a
penny and therefore, I can't afford to make more records. It's as
simple as that. Given that I put 6 months of my time, effort, blood,
sweat and tears, not to mention my own money, into 'Details,' (and not
forgetting the dedication and supreme efforts of a wonderful supporting
cast) please support me by buying this record from one of the suppliers
listed above. It's a lavish package - a luxurious, 12 page lyric
booklet designed by Gerald Tournier. Julia Haw painted a wonderful
original oil painting, 'The Headless Surgeon,' for the cover image.
Jeff Teader, who put the whole design together - painstakingly scanned
each individual letter of the alphabet from a Victorian physiology book
to create the tracklisting on the back of the artwork.
Despite these otherworldy efforts, I have done my utmost to keep the dealer
price of this release as low as possible. You should not have to pay
more than £10/€10.67/$14 (minus post and packaging) for the album
ANYWHERE.
I sincerely thank you for the support and I hope you enjoy the record.
Glen Johnson
I KNOW YOU KNOW MY NAME